Willa Cather Quotes
Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
E. M. Forster
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
Gary Bettman
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
Jack Vance
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
Zach Roerig
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
Adam Grant
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
Aaliyah
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
Harrison Ford
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.
Ban Ki-moon
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
Taylor Hanson Hanson
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
Imran Amed
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Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
Abbas Kiarostami
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
Salman Rushdie
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
Gary Busey
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
Abu Abbas
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Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.
Orison Swett Marden
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
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A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.
Barbara Branden
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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.
Paul Davies
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The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?
Clare Short
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg
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Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
Willa Cather